Giulio Antonio Santorio (6 June 1532 – 9 May 1602) was an Italian

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of the Roman Catholic Church.

Biography

Santorio was born in Caserta. He served as

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of Santa Severina from 1566 until his death."Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio"
'' Catholic-Hierarchy.org''. David M. Cheney. Retrieved April 30, 2016"Cardinal Giulio Antonio Santorio"
''GCatholic.org''. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved April 30, 2016 On 12 March 1566, Santorio was

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bishop by

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with Annibale Caracciolo,

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. Santorio was made Cardinal on 17 May 1570, and installed as the Cardinal-Priest of S. Bartolomeo all'Isola the same year, and subsequently became Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria in Trastevere in 1595 and finally in 1597 Cardinal-Bishop of Palestrina. Through his own episcopal consecration of Girolamo Bernerio, Cardinal Santorio figures in the

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of Pope Francis, Pope Benedict XVI, and most modern bishops.

Episcopal succession

Literary works

*''Vita del card. Giulio Antonio Santori detto il card. di Santa Severina composta e scritta da lui medesimo'', in «Archivio della R. Società di Storia Patria», voll. XII 1889 e XIII 1890 *''Pro confutatione articulorum et haeresum recentiorum Haereticorum et pseudo-apostolorum, ex Utriusque Testamenti textu decerpta'', in ms. Vaticanus Latinus 12233, cc. 62r-439v, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana *''Historia abiuratorum et haereticorum scripta et notata a Cardinali Sanctae Severinae'' ... ''De persecutionis haereticae pravitatis historia'', ms. in Archivio della Congragazione per la Dottrina della Fede

Biography

Episcopal succession

Literary works

References

Further reading